Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

I am a woman at war within myself, in sight of two well-armed realities, my faith life suspended in the center. I think of ...

In February 2025, photos circulating online revealed that Azerbaijani forces damaged the altar of Tsitsernavank in Artsakh's ...

In the Polish village of Konotopa, near Toruń, the construction has begun of a Virgin Mary statue that will measure more than ...

His wife has her head on embroidered cushions with cherub head tassels and wears an ermine lined robe, coronet and jewelled necklace with a pendant cross. She has a lion at her feet also. At each end ...

Lisbon is a stunning city with plenty to discover. It is no wonder it is one of the most sought-after cities worldwide. For ...

These scenes from the Way of the Cross have provided inspiration for many of the world's greatest works of visual art. During Lent or Holy Week most ... might be said: "O Jesus Christ, my Lord ...

At the foot of the cross stands his mother, Mary, with other holy women. Jesus looks at her; then he looks at the disciple whom he loves, and he says to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.

Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting ... had gathered at her door. Jesus healed the sick and delivered people possessed by demons. DEATH ON A ROMAN CROSS A crucified man’s ...

In the end it was Leonard of Port Maurice or Porto Maurizio (Italy) (1676–1751), a Franciscan of the Riformella, who established what we know as the 14 Stations of the Cross ... refer to the Holy ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

Jim Dessicino, parish catechetical leader at the Parish of Saint Monica in Atlantic City, center, stands with Coadjutor ...